• AAHP
  
• Physician group incentives and performance
• Carve-outs
• Risk Selection in Medicare Managed Care
• Managed Care Plans and Emergency Rooms
• Information Systems and Managed Care
• Provider-sponsored organizations and their roles
• Human resources
• * Procurement Policy and Medicaid Managed Care for Chronic and Disabling Conditions
• * Medicare Disenrollment From Managed Care Plans
  
  

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• Financial incentives and treatment decisions for depression, anxiety, and substance abuse
• Impact of Financial and Organizational Arrangements on Utilization Patterns and Cost of Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Conditions
• Carving Out Behavioral Health
• Risk-Sharing Arrangements and Delegation in Behavioral Health

 

 

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• Quality Competition in Managed Care
• * QSPAN - Cardiovascular disease
• * QSPAN-HEDIS
• * MAJIC: Making Advances in Avoiding Jaundice in Infant Care
• * Asthma Treatment in Medicaid Managed Care Organizations
• * Effect of Health Plans on Hypertension and Diabetes Care
• * Improving Care Coordination and Patient Outcomes
• * Quality Management Practices in Medicaid Managed Care

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PROGRAM PROJECT STRUCTURING MARKETS
AND COMPETITION IN HEALTH CARE

Principal Investigator: Joseph P. Newhouse
Co-Principal Investigators: Margarita Alegria, Richard G. Frank, Edward Guadagnoli, Haiden Huskamp, Bruce Landon, Albert Ma, Thomas G. McGuire, Sharon-Lise Normand

• The Impact of Market Forces on Physician Outcomes
  
• Structuring Hospital Networks and their Effects on Services and Prices
• Consequences for Cardiac and Other Conditions of Increased Price Competition in Provider Markets
• Carve Outs, Cost Shifting, and Quality Side Effects
• Selection and Risk Adjustment in Private Employers' Health Plans
• Explaining Managed Care Penetration in Rural Areas

Program Project Core Activities

Theoretical Core: Tom McGuire
Statistical Core: Sharon-Lise Normand
Junior Investigator Development: Richard Frank

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• * CAHPS
• * Physician Group CAHPS survey

 

 

 

 

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